PlayStation Plus: Malicious Free for Members

This week, we hope you’ll join us in welcoming Malicious to the Instant Game Collection! Download it for free starting with tomorrow’s PlayStation Store update.

We’re smack dab in the middle of Spring Fever 2013 — this week, you can look forward to a launch week discount on Dragon Fantasy Book I, along with deals on a sweet lineup of titles from the Grand Theft Auto franchise; perfect to catch up on any missed entries in the series.

April 16th PlayStation Plus Update

Malicious

PSN Price: $9.99, Free for PS Plus members

Take control of the Spirit Vessel and battle waves of brutal fighters and colossal enemies to rid the world of the evil force of Malicious. Gain new weapons, build your powers and perform devastating combo attacks as the final showdown between good and evil draws near. With a beautiful art style, Malicious is a treat to look at and will be coming to PS Plus later this month.

Experience an all-new old adventure! Fight your way through hordes of monsters, explore the caves, castles, and dungeons of an ancient evil, and meet warriors, princes, pirates, zombies, and crazy old woodsmen in a huge world epic retro RPG adventure. Authentic 8-bit artwork and an original soundtrack by renowned 8-bit musician Crashfaster keeps the game true to its retro roots. Get this new release at a launch week 20% discount, only for PS Plus members.

Excited for Grand Theft Auto V? Who isn’t! If you happened to miss any of the excellent entries in the series, this might be a great time to catch up before jumping back in the worlds that only Rockstar Games can create.

What are you most excited for this week? What do you think could be better? Leave your comments below, or, if you want to get more involved, head over to the PlayStation Community Forums to discuss this week’s news, find other topics to contribute to, or start one for yourself. See you in the comments!

To morgran or anyone else at the blog: I thought PSN plus supposed to get you 2 retail PS3 games a month, why did we get just 1 retail game this month in the form of Demon’s Souls? Europe gets 2 PS3 retail games a month.

We won’t get our update here in the U.S. until the first week of May. Or that/s the way it’s been thus far. The EU always gets great titles for the most part. I just hope they come our way soon, but I don’t think we will get the same games as they get. The only ones I can think of, are Vanquish and Quantum Conundrum. There may have been others, but I don’t recall them.

That will be the first month i am jealous of EU. Wold love hitman. Catherine I have been close to buying on several occasions, but I swore off buying any games until I am done with my gigantic backlog. (at least 20 games that I really want to play). These last 10 days or so I finished off Bioshock Infinite, GOW:A, Sly 4, Dead nation, and Dead space 3, So I am shrinking my backlog.

Any chance of Mr. Morgan Haro taking a look at his blog post and maybe updating us and what’s going on with this update? Obviously life will go on without the update, but a common courtesy would be to make your customers aware of the situation. It’s completely acceptable for there to have been an issue in getting the update out, however ignoring the situation as if nothing were wrong makes it seem as if you don’t care. Again I’m well aware that in the grand scheme of things this is an insignificant issue, but I just wish Sony would at least communicate with us. I mean what’s the point of this blog if the authors only read the first page of comments?

Let’s hope this long delay will take care of the store’s problems, cause as we all know, there are some major problems with the store! Problems that should have been fixed before they even rolled out the new layout. So for now, we just wait…

I was going to buy the borderlands combo, but I has bank issues due to thieves doing what thieves do best. I’m letting fate choose whether or not I buy it. If my bank gets things resolved first, I’ll consider this wait a good thing. If the store updates first, I’ll consider it as a sign I shouldn’t blow so much money.

not sure if it’s maintenance issues or something i can’t comprehend but i was really excited to play malicious, looks like tons of fun and it probably is. was told you guys were going to put it on the playstation store (and free for psplus users) yesterday and it never happened. checked the ps store today and it was there but this time i was prompted to pay $10 even though i am a playstation plus subscriber. what’s up with that?

Due to maintenance issues, the store which usually updates on Tuesday’s hasn’t updated yet. If you wait on it to be fixed, you can download Malicious for free. There are also discounts for Grand Theft Auto titles as well.

That depends on a few things. Not all PS3’s are reverse compatible, so first of all you need to find out if yours is. I know some of the earlier models are, but the PS3 slim and newer models aren’t. Then you need to find out if the PS2 titles are region locked or if they are region free. Hope this helps.

@293 nah man sony still have the vast ps2 library and psone classics to peddle to us. which im okay with.

srs ppl stop hating on playstation plus. We’re not entitled to free AAA titles. I mean whats the alternative? xbox live? where you dont get free titles and have to pay the same price regardless of membership status? Have to use stupid Microsoft points? rage! I never heard such whining about something that they give away for “free”. Whole point of this is to make people try the games otherwise not even bother and if they like it they can buy it. (though sometimes it feels like it could have done better having a button for purchase and am another for download for free.)

@295 It’s not that I’m upset about not getting access to the games, it’s the lack of communication about the issue. Obviously it doesn’t matter that the update was delayed, but had it not been for 276 those of us not on Twitter would still be in the dark about the issue. It’s unprofessional for a company to advertise a release date and then not communicate with their customers when that has been delayed.

I agree completely with lil_hand. Sony must get better with updates with issues. Sure it’s not the end of the world that the PSN update was delayed… however, let us know on the PS3 that this is delayed. It is known that Tuesday evenings (4-7pm ET) the PSN store is updated so we all can give Sony our hard earned cash. The least Sony can do is let us know there is a delay or something is amiss. I feel more sorry for the developers that look forward to day 1 releases that people don’t know got changed.